• Designed and executed program management structure for the Plant Operations group, ensuring projects with highest value are pursued and tracked to completion.• Selected to represent Plant Operations to design and build NRG’s Project Management Community, driving best practices for existing project managers and mentoring those whose career path includes it.• Drove successful on-time, on-budget delivery of plant technology initiatives including operations management solutions, historian support and enhancements, and emissions reporting systems.• Lead requirements gathering, capture and document all project deliverables, maintain schedules and budgets for multiple ongoing projects.• Served as first point-of-contact for plant personnel to ensure proper capture, processing and resolution of information technology requests.• Facilitated IT Solutions by interfacing with multiple IT teams (Application, Server, Database, Network, Telecommunications) to provide end-to-end technology solutions.

• Drive successful on-time, on-budget delivery of large technology and interactive marketing projects (worth $2mm in revenue for FY2007) for Fortune 100 clients including: Intel, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft and Methodist Hospital• Lead requirements gathering, capture and document all project deliverables, maintain schedules and budgets for multiple ongoing projects.• Report to, and communicate with, Idea stakeholders including executive management throughout the project lifecycle from initiation to delivery.• Guide and direct long-term strategy for the agency as member of Strategic Leadership Team.• Mentor and guide more junior Idea personnel to ensure institutional knowledge, skills and practices are carried on by next generation of management.• Serve as an overall project escalation point for large accounts with multiple, simultaneous projects running (often supervising multiple Project Managers).

• Originate projects and define overall vision, scope and phases of IT projects and support items to streamline workflow and improve controls and efficiency for the Power mid-office.• Test all enhancements and new applications prior to deployment.• Report equity transactions and reconcile daily P&L and cash positions across multiple financial instruments in both power and gas commodities markets.• Produce daily P&L reports for the asset management portfolio detailing overall risk and exposure for both gas and power at the physical plant level.• Maintain all pricing for power commodities including forward proprietary marks, settlement pricing, and Intra-Day/Next-Day pricing.• Ensure daily tie-out of NYMEX and ICE cleared trading activity.• Obtained "hands-on" practical experience with commodities trading including valuation of options, futures, swaps and other financial products, both physical and financial.

• Support all aspects of the Entergy-Koch Risk Management System including SQL Server Back-End (comprising Mark-To-Market, Price Curves and associated logic), Business Objects Reporting (entailing Daily P&L, Daily Change and Trade Capture reporting) and C++ front-end (housing all specialized business logic for trade capture).• Work closely with the power and gas mid-office groups to understand risk management and analysis in order to better design and implement technological solutions to business problems.• Develop estimates, gather requirements and organize teams to accomplish defined tasks and manage workflow ensuring on-time and under-budget delivery of projects.• Acquire experience with Confirmations, Settlements, Financial and Reporting for all aspects of Mid-Office operations, analysis and reporting.